Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-08-12
IN GENERAL.

Some Portland fishermen thought they
had run upon the sea-serpent the other day,
but the marine monster proved to be tur-
tie eight feet long and weighing 400 pounds,
which they captured and took into port
Out of 20 young men who competed for
a West Point cadetship at Westfeld Mass,
ten were rejected by the physician because
they had 1.-THE tobacco heart" brought ON
by cigarette smoking. They were unfit for
West Point service.
OF the cotton -seed-oil mills there were in
1879 only 40 in the South. In 1886 there
were 146, and the capital employed in them
had increased from 50, 504 800 to $40, 182,-
400. Of the 3, 200, 600 tons of seed annually
grown, only 400, 900 tons are yet made into
oil.
Troy saloon keeper has hit on a novel
idea for a sign. He has had the door of his
place so constructed as to resemble huge
barrel, eight feet in height. The edges are
set with colored glass in such a way that at
night the lights within outline the barrel
distinctly
A curious typographical error filled the
church of Rev. Mr.. Van D., at Carson,
New, TO overhowing with people, many of
whom had not attended divine service for
years. The local paper announced the topic
as "A recipe for the cure of rheumatism"
instead of ''Hoodlumism, as was intended
A map of the world made in 1925 receiv-
ed at the state library in Albany, N. Y, al
though made long before Henry Hudson
was born, shows the Hudson river on it. 1t
is a fac-simile of the map by Ribero called
the Borgian map. Who discovered the
Hudson river is therefore still an open ques-
ton,
The first wire nails were made in this
country II years ago by a German mo
chRnic, who brought over and operated
few machines in Kentucky. There was not
much demand for them till after the great
strike in 1885, when wrought nails became
so scarce that those made Of wire had TO be
used. This brought them into favor, and
several improved machines have been in
vented to make them One at Beaver Falls,
Pa, makes POO tenpenny nails minute.
Paper window-glass is now said to be an
assured fact. The process is thus describ-
ed A window-pane is made Of white pa
per manufactured from cotton or linen and
modified by chemical action. Afterwards
the paper is dipped in a preparation of cam
phor and alcohol, which makes it like parch-
ment. From this point it can be nodded
and cut into remarkably tough sheets en-
tirely transparent, and it can be dyed with
almost the whole of the aniline colors, the
result being a transparent sheet, showing
far more vivid hues than the best glass ex-
hibits.
Two interesting physical experiments are
amusing French scientists. In the first a
lighted candle is placed behind bottle, and
the latter is blown upon with the breath
from distance of about foot, The meet
ing of the air currents set in motion around
the bottle quickly extinguishes the fame,
though extinction would be impossible if
flat board or sheet Of cardboard should be
substituted for the bottle. For the second
experiment two bottles are placed ON TIA
BILE, with a space of half an inch between
them. The candle is set behind this space,
and from the same distance as before, ON
the opposite side, the breath is blown smart
ly against the flame, Not only will the lat
ter continue burning, but it will incline to-
ward the operator slightly as if through the
effect of suction. This phenomenon, analo-
gous TO the first, is due TO the fact that "a
portion Of the air cannot pass between the
bottles, and is forced around them and back
toward the eXperimenter.